Wooden Trumpet Review

I recently took part in a production of Debussy's opera Pelleas et Melissande with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and his Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique at the Opera Comique in Paris (incidentally, where the opera was first performed in 1902). Much of the trumpet writing is quiet and muted and indeed, the opera ends with the quietest muted solo imaginable. After trying many different mutes I settled on the Denis Wick wooden mute as the only one that offered both the right sound and perfect intonation in all registers.

Michael Harrison, trumpet, Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique